[LA.pm] LA-PM sponsoring a booth at SCALE?

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

I wanted to open discussions on this list as to whether the LA.pm would like
to host a booth at the upcoming Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) to be
held on the weekend of February 10th and 11th
(http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/
<http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/> ). As a local user group, there
would be NO COST! Trust me, that's a wonderful thing so I'd really like to
take advantage of their generosity. I'll only do this though if we can get
members to volunteer to sign-up for specific spots to sit in the booth and
evangelize for our favorite programming language.
 
I have attended this event for a few years and the turn out for open-source
minded individuals is just tremendous. This is a great opportunity to keep
the buzz for perl alive in our area and perhaps have a very public forum for
addressing specific misinformation that to my surprise never seems to go
away (e.g., perl is slow, perl can't scale, perl can't be used for building
"real" applications, etc.).
 
The only requirement that SCALE organizers place on us is that we will have
to have live demonstration systems showing something related to perl at the
show. They'll provide free internet access and power. We need to provide a
few boxes showing "something" that we can demonstrate. This could be
examples of performance tests in operation, a perl-based rapid development
framework, etc. I think it would be ideal if the demonstration could address
one of perl's common misconceptions (e.g., performance, difficulty to use,
etc.) rather than just do something cryptic or esoteric.
 
In order to know if we should proceed, I'll need for everyone who is
interested to reply.
 
1). Should we have a booth?
2). Will you take a time slot at the event (Sat-Sun - Feb 10-11). The length
of the "slot" will depend on the number of volunteers.
3). Do you have an idea for a demonstration?
4). Will you help to build one or more demonstrations?

Regards,

Todd

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
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